I’m in St. Louis right now at Covenant Theological Seminary, my theological alma mater. It’s bone chillingly cold here, which makes the new and comfortable student center (previously two big classrooms) even more comfortable. Classes today must be starting around 9:30 AM, because the population here just surged from three to about 25.
Borderland violence has gotten so bad that president Calderón recently sent in the army to disarm the police - and as a result, crime has gone down. Read more about it here.
TIJUANA, Mexico - They say law enforcement in a Mexican border town isn’t child’s play. You could have fooled me. Cops in this city […]
The city becomes more breatheable:
Heavy trucks belch black smoke and lines of buses battle through a virtually gridlocked sea of cars inching beneath a haze of exhaust fumes.Welcome to Mexico City in 2007. With car ownership more than doubling over the last decade, the megalopolis once dubbed the world’s most polluted city should by now […]
Reforma reports today that 4 of the 10 most populous majors at the UNAM have gone from majority male to majority female (accounting, surgical medicine, psychology and veterinary medicine). A study by the University Program for Gender Studies (PUEG) reports that total male matriculation has gone down from 65% in 1980 to 48% in 2005. […]
I got back to Mexico on Monday, descending through light smog into the megalopolis. I wandered through the airport and was beckoned back into the country by a clerk who barely looked at my passport and visa as she scanned and stamped.
Instead of using the official airport taxi, I called my local service and saved […]